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Prime Minister's Office
English translation of Prime Minister’s opening statement at the Working session 7 of the G7 Summit
Working Session 7: Common Endeavor for a Sustainable Planet 
Excellencies,
Today we are at an important turning point in history. In a world that is plagued by many problems, climate change, environmental protection and energy security are among the biggest challenges today. One of the barriers in fighting these big challenges is that we look at climate change only from an energy perspective. We should increase the scope of our discussions.
In Indian civilization, the Earth has been given the status of a mother. And to find solution to these challenges, we need to hear the call of the Mother Earth. Accordingly, we have to change ourselves, change our behavior. In this spirit, India has created institutional solutions for the whole world such as Mission Life, International Solar Alliance, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, Mission Hydrogen, Biofuel Alliance, Big Cat Alliance. Today, the farmers of India are walking on the path of progress and development by saving every drop of water, following the mission of "Per Drop More Crop". We are moving swiftly towards our goal of Net Zero by 2070.
Our vast railway network has decided to become Net Zero by 2030. Currently, the installed capacity of renewable energy in India is about 175 Megawatts. In 2030 it will reach around 500 Megawatts. We consider all our efforts as our responsibility towards the Earth. These values are the foundation of our development and are rooted in the ambitious goals of our development journey. Environmental commitments are not a hindrance but a catalyst in India's development journey.
Excellencies,
While moving towards Climate Action, we have to make the Green and Clean Technology supply chains resilient. If we do not provide technology transfer and affordable financing to the countries in need, then our discussion will be futile. There will be no change on the ground.
I can proudly say that the people of India are conscious about the environment and understand their responsibilities. For centuries this sense of responsibility has been imbibed in us. India is fully prepared to make its contribution together with all.
Thank you.
DISCLAIMER - This is the approximate translation of Prime Minister's remarks. Original remarks were delivered in Hindi.
Cabinet
Cabinet approves MoU between NITI Aayog, and Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation  in the field of social, economic, industrial and regional development programs
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding  between National Institute for Transforming India  Aayog, and Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation  in the field of social, economic, industrial and regional development programs.
The objective of the MoU is to explore the potential of cooperation in the framework of preparation and implementation of strategies and programs of social, economic, industrial and regional development. It provides a framework and enabling environment to understand each other's strengths, market, technologies, policies, etc.
The MoU covers the following areas of cooperation:
- Conducting and execution of joint research projects related to issues of mutual interest;
- Exchange of information and research works related to issues of mutual interest between the two sides, including information on government strategies and development programs;
- Visits of relevant specialists of both sides for participation in joint events;
- Organization of seminars, conferences and other meetings on agreed agenda; and
- Other forms of cooperation as per mutual consent of the Sides.
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Protection of Street Dwelling Children
As per Section 2   of Juvenile Justice  Act, 2015 , a child who is found working in contravention of labour laws for the time being in force or is found begging, or living on the street is included as a “child in need of care and protection”, among others.
The Ministry implements a centrally sponsored scheme, named Child Protection Services  scheme, under Umbrella Integrated Child Development Services  Schemes for supporting the children in difficult circumstances including street children, as envisaged under JJ Act. Under the scheme institutional care is provided through Child Care Institutions , as a rehabilitative measure. The programmes and activities in CCIs inter-alia include age-appropriate education, access to vocational training, recreation, health care, counseling etc. The primary responsibility of execution of the Act and implementation of Scheme rests with the State/UTs.
Due support was provided under the scheme during pandemic for care and protection of children in difficult circumstances, as per the scheme guidelines. Necessary advisories and coping strategy were also shared with the State /UTs, during the said period.
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has issued advisory regarding care and protection of children moving with migrant families and children living on streets/CCIs in light of COVID-19.
This information was given by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises
Shri Narayan Rane says Government is committed to achieve the goals of holistic development and self-reliance of MSMEs
Union Minister for MSME Shri Narayan Rane has said under the able leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi MSME Ministry is committed to achieve the goals of holistic development and self-reliance of MSMEs. In his message on the occasion of International MSME Day he said while recovering from the adverse conditions arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent Ukraine war, the MSME sector not only digitized its business operations but also cut downed their input cost and started a new tradition by domestically producing essential products curtailing import and also started export of those products with the support of various schemes of the Government. He said during this time, MSMEs focused their online services to reach the wider market, consequently they have been able to overcome the adversity.
Shri Rane said MSMEs are the backbone of the Indian economy and global sustainable developments. MSMEs are contributing in providing livelihood opportunities to local communities. To achieve these goals and encourage innovation, “International MSME Day” is celebrated every year on 27 June under the auspices of the United Nations.
The Minister said this year MSME Day is being celebrated under the theme “Resilience and Rebuilding: MSMEs for Sustainable Development”. World MSME Day serves to remind the Governments to maintain a business environment in which small rural, cottage and traditional industries also get the opportunity to flourish, he added.
Shri Rane conveyed Hearty Congratulations and Best Wishes to all the MSMEs who have become an integral part of every citizen's life.
Ministry of Finance
GST revenue collection for May 2018
Rs 94,016 Crore of total gross GST revenue collected in May2018
Gross revenue collection in may is much higher than the monthly average of GST collection in the last financial year
The total gross GST revenue collected in the month of May2018 is Rs. 94,016 crore of which CGST is Rs.15,866 crore, SGST is Rs.21,691 crore, IGST is Rs. 49,120crore  and Cess is Rs. 7,339 crore .The total number of GSTR 3B Returns filed for the month of April up to 31st May, 2018 is 62.47 lakh.
The total revenue earned by Central Government and the State Governments after settlement in the month of May, 2018 is Rs.28,797crore for CGST and Rs.34,020crore for the SGST.
Though current month’s revenue collection is less compared to last month’s revenue, still the gross revenue collection in the month of May  is much higher than the monthly average of GST collection in the last Financial Year . The April revenue figure was higher because of year end effect.
On 29.05.2018, Rs. 6696 crore has been released to the states as GST compensation for the month of March, 2018. Therefore, the total GST compensation released to the states for the FY 2017-18  has been Rs. 47844 crore.
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
COVID-19 UPDATE
94.70 Cr. vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive
18,166 new cases in the last 24 hours; lowest in 214 days
Active cases account for less than 1% of total cases, currently at 0.68%; Lowest since March 2020
India's Active caseload stands at 2,30,971; lowest in 208 days
Recovery Rate currently at 97.99%; Highest since March 2020
23,624 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to 3,32,71,915
Weekly Positivity Rate  less than 3% for last 107 days
Daily positivity rate  less than 3% for last 41 days
58.25 cr Total Tests conducted so far
Ministry of Railways
TALCHER-SAMBALPUR SUPER CRITICAL DOUBLING PROJECT
9 Kms Stretch from Sambalpur City to Maneswar Station commissioned after CRS inspection.
CRS inspected the section yesterday and authorised for train traffic movement.
96.38% Construction work of total stretch completed.
Construction work of 162.212 Kms out of 168.212 Kms long Super Critical Doubling Project completed.
The construction work for Super Critical Doubling work of Talcher-Sambalpur line is in full swing and ahead of completion, soon. More than 96% of construction works of this project have been completed, till now.
A patch of 9 Kms between Maneswar and Sambalpur City Stations has been completed and commissioned yesterday for both Goods and Passenger Traffic. Shri A.M.Chowdhary, Commissioner of Railway Safety, South Eastern circle inspected the Doubling and electrification work between Sambalpur City and Maneswar in Sambalpur Division, yesterday, i.e. on 30.05.2023.
Shri Chowdhary inspected safety-related aspects like Overhead Equipments, Bridges, Signal & Telecommunication Equipments, Railway Track, Manned level crossing etc. and also conducted a Speed Trial between Sambalpur City and Maneswar Stations.
This has been possible due to consistent review of project works by Hon’ble Minister of Railways Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw Ji. General Manager Shri Manoj Sharma advised concerned officials to focus for the speedy completion of various project works along with Super Critical Doubling projects like Talcher and Sambalpur Doubling. Shri Sharma also advised officials to coordinate with stake holders including State Government officials for early completion of the projects.
Hon’ble Minister of Railways Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw is giving priority for the Development of Railway infrastructure of the region along with various project works going on in Odisha and also is monitoring the developmental works regularly. Talcher and Sambalpur Doubling Work will boost the economy of the region and will provide a hassle free train operations between vital rail line connecting Western Odisha with Coastal Odisha.
Doubling Work in Talcher-Sambalpur Super Critical  project was included in 2011-12 and the final Sanction was given in 2018. Works between Sambalpur City and Maneswar Stations, a stretch of 9.0KMs was completed and commissioned. This is a super critical and important coal route between Talcher and Brajarajnagar. With this, a total of 162.212 Kms doubling work has been commissioned so far in phased manner which is 96.38% of total length of the project. Remaining 06 Kms of this project between Sambalpur City and Sambalpur Stations has been targeted to be completed in next couple of months. Latest anticipated Cost of the project is Rupees 1539.28 Crores and Rupees 1377 Crores have already been spent which is about 90% of the total cost.
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India’s Cumulative COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage exceeds 75 Cr
Recovery Rate currently at 97.58%
25,404 New Cases reported in the last 24 hours
India's Active Caseload  is 1.09% of Total Cases
Weekly Positivity Rate  less than 3% for last 81 days
With the administration of 78,66,950 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, country’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage surpassed the cumulative figure of 75.22 Cr  as per provisional reports till 7 am today. This has been achieved through 76,12,687sessions.
The break-up of the cumulative figureas per the provisional report till 7 am today include:
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HCWs
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1st Dose
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1,03,64,718
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2nd Dose
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|
86,13,207
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|
FLWs
|
|
1st Dose
|
|
1,83,38,867
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|
2nd Dose
|
|
1,41,07,030
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|
Age Group 18-44 years
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|
1st Dose
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|
30,32,52,342
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|
2nd Dose
|
|
4,54,19,375
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|
Age Group 45-59 years
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|
1st Dose
|
|
14,47,82,266
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|
2nd Dose
|
|
6,38,06,413
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Over 60 years
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|
1st Dose
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|
9,37,73,048
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2nd Dose
|
|
4,97,81,058
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|
Total
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|
75,22,38,324
The Union Government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country.
The recovery of 37,127 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally of recovered patients  to 3,24,84,159.
Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 97.58%.
Sustained and collaborative efforts by the Centre and the States/UTs continue the trend of less than 50,000 Daily New Cases that is being reported for 79 consecutive days now.
25,404 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours.
The Active Caseload is presently 3,62,207. Active cases presently constitute 1.09% of the country's total Positive Cases.
The testing capacity across the country continues to be expanded. The last 24 hours saw a total of
14,30,891tests being conducted. India has so far conducted over 54.44 Cr  cumulative tests.
While testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, Weekly Positivity Rate at 2.07% remains less than 3% for the last 81 days now. The Daily Positivity rate reported to be1.78%. The daily Positivity rate has remained below3% for last 15 days and below 5% for 98 consecutive days now.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India’s Cumulative COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage crosses the landmark of 46 Cr
Nearly 53 Lakh vaccine doses administered in the last 24 hours
Recovery Rate stands at 97.37%
41,649 Daily New Cases reported in last 24 hours
India's Active Caseload  presently constitutes 1.29% of total cases
Daily Positivity Rate  less than 5% for 54 consecutive days
India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage crossed the landmark of 46 Cr yesterday. Cumulatively, 46,15,18,479 vaccine doses have been administered through 54,94,423 sessions, as per the provisional report till 8 am today. 52,99,036 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.
These include:
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HCWs
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1st Dose
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1,03,02,313
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2nd Dose
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78,22,150
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FLWs
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1st Dose
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1,79,32,882
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2nd Dose
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1,12,50,974
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Age Group 18-44 years
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1st Dose
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15,22,17,587
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2nd Dose
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80,61,768
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Age Group 45-59 years
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1st Dose
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10,44,37,699
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2nd Dose
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3,84,29,220
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Over 60 years
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1st Dose
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7,49,29,832
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2nd Dose
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3,61,34,054
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Total
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46,15,18,479
The new phase of universalization of COVID-19 vaccination has commenced from 21st June, 2021. The Union Government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country.
Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 3,07,81,263 people have already recovered from COVID-19 and 37,291 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours. This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 97.37%.
India has reported 41,649 daily new cases in the last 24 hours.
Less than 50,000 Daily New Cases have been reported since thirty-four continuous days. This is a result of sustained and collaborative efforts by the Centre and the States/UTs.
India’s Active Caseload today stands at 4,08,920 and active cases now constitute 1.29% of the country's total Positive Cases.
With substantially ramped up testing capacity across the country, a total of 17,76,315 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country. Cumulatively, India has conducted over 46.64 crore  tests so far.
While on one side testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, Weekly Positivity Rate is currently at 2.42% and the Daily Positivity rate stands at 2.34% today. Daily Positivity rate has remained below 5% for 54 consecutive days now.
Ministry of Defence
UPGRADING THE FUNCTIONING OF COAST GUARDS
The Government has established a robust maritime search and rescue framework to address and respond to various contingencies in deep sea and in coastal areas of India, which includes distress onboard fishing boats and merchant vessels, safety of life during marine incidents and Search & Rescue  response during cyclones etc. Director General Indian Coast Guard has been designated as the Chairman of National Maritime Search and Rescue Board , which constitutes members from national/coastal state administration/agencies. The force levels of Indian Coast Guard has been enhanced to 159 ships and 72 aircrafts. Further, 16 District Headquarters and 42 stations have been set up all along the coastline. The ships and air assets of Indian Coast Guard are fitted with latest state of the art technology equipment/system/sensors to enhance surveillance capability of the Coast Guard. Adequate research and deliberations are undertaken while formulating the staff requirements for all acquisition cases so that the new ships and air assets inducted are the best in class.
The details of funds that have been devolved to the Coast Guard in the last five years for upgrading the functioning of Coast Guard are as below:

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Financial Year
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Revenue
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Capital
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Total
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2016-17
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1769.1700
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2500.0000
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4269.1700
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2017-18
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2148.9700
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2200.0000
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4348.9700
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2018-19
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2401.5300
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2262.1600
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4663.6900
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2019-20
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2520.0700
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2600.0000
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5120.0700
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2020-21
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2522.9200
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2500.0000
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5022.9200
This information was given by Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Ajay Bhatt in a written reply to Shri Sujeet Kumar in Rajya Sabha on March 28, 2022.
Election Commission
Election Commission helpline number, mobile app is providing citizen service round the clock
Kolkata, March 19, 2019
With countdown started for General Election to the 17th Lok Sabha, Election Commission of India has taken a number of citizen centric initiatives to enable the voters to cast their polls smoothly in a hassle-free manner. A major step taken for the voters is start of an all-purpose, round the clock link with the citizen-voters in the form of toll-free helpline number 1950. Callers can enquire on subjects such as elections, their personal information details in the electoral roll, EPIC, voting dates planned for them, their BLO, parliamentary constituency and polling station, registering as PWD voter, online registration, roll revision and also to lodge a complaint. A mobile app called ‘Voter Helpline’ has also been launched with the same objective of providing elector services. Calls can be made to 1950 through this Voter Helpline mobile app also. The portal www.nvsp.in can also be used for these above purposes. Presently in the election season, this helpline has been made operational on all days of the week including holidays and Sundays. This All-India helpline number 1950 has been shared in the homepages of all state CEOs’ website so as to connect with more and more voters.
When a citizen calls 1950, the call lands up at the district contact centre from where the call centre agent helps the voter to get the latest information and also to redress their grievances. The person will be greeted in the language of the district. Voters can also call up any district across India by prefixing 1950 with the STD code. All District Contact Centres have uniform Standard Operating Procedure, similar FAQ and access to NVSP and ERONET. Thus every citizen will get the same answer from wherever he may call. The CEO Office has State Contact Centre with a toll-free number whose primary job is to monitor 1950, take escalated calls, calls pertaining to CEO office and work as a control room during election times. DEOs also have a complaint redressal mechanism. Complaints registered by making calls to the toll-free number 1950 or on the website are taken up. Complainants can also see the details of the action taken on their complaints.
This round the clock citizen service provides features enabling citizens to obtain electoral services as per their requirement and acts as an important link between the Electoral Machinery & Citizens. Notably, this helpline number was launched in 2011 and was changed from the earlier number ‘1965’ to ‘1950’ because the Commission was constituted in year 1950 on January 25.
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
ZSI Scientists Identify 37 Mammals from Six Study sites of Indian Himalayan Region, Study 13 Species for Genetic Make-up, Population Structure
No Parallel Work ever done in India under One Single Project Using Faecal Samples: Dr Dhriti Banerjee
Kolkata, September 14, 2022
A real demonstration of monitoring of large and threatened mammals in the Indian Himalayan Region has been made by the team of Zoological Survey of India  scientists by use of non-invasive genetics. This has been the largest attempt from the Indian Himalayan region  where 4806 faecal samples were processed for non-invasive genetic monitoring of threatened mammals covering six study sites namely Lahaul and Spiti, Uttarkashi, Darjeeling, East Sikkim, West Kameng and East Siang, stated ZSI Scientist Shri Mukesh Thakur. Altogether the scientists had at least one site that represented all biotic provinces of the Himalayan and Tran-Himalayan Bio-geographic zones. According to Dr Dhriti Banerjee, Director, ZSI, “It was not an easy and straightforward task for the scientists, but the study made a benchmark to be followed”. She also assured that no parallel work has ever been done in India under one single project as far as the number of species studied genetically with the use of faecal samples.
The scientists identified 37 mammals and 13 species were studied for their genetic make-up, population structure and genetic fitness. Shri Thakur along with another scientist of ZSI Shri Lalit Sharma who heads the GIS & Wildlife Section of the organisation, coordinated the project activities. Low to moderate levels of genetic variability was observed and most species exhibited stable demographic histories.
The project was awarded to the institute under the large grant category of National Mission on Himalayan Studies supported by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change .
The study has estimated an unbiased population genetic account for 13 species that may be monitored after a fixed time interval to understand species performance in response to the landscape changes.
Dr Banerjee stated, “This type of deliverable is only possible with the strong determination, pervasiveness, clarity of vision and unbiased contribution/coordination of all the team members.”
The study has been published in the “Science of the Total Environment”, which is available online from September 11, 2022 and reveals the pragmatic permeability with the representative sampling in the IHR in order to facilitate the development of species-oriented conservation and management programmes.